Health Care
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Surgalign to sell medical hardware businessJun 19, 2023 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - Surgalign Holdings Inc. said Tuesday to sell substantially all of its U.S. medical hardware and biomaterials assets to Xtant Medical Holdings Inc. for $5 mil...
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What if you can't afford long-term care? Here are some options
Jun 18, 2023 6:00 am - As many as 8 in 10 older Americans couldn't afford more than four years in an assisted living facility or two years in a nursing home, according to a 2023 analysis by th...
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Mole-removal scheme nets Lombard doctor 6 months in prisonJun 16, 2023 1:00 am - A former Lombard doctor will spend six months in federal prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud stemming from a mole-removal scheme he concocted to collect mo...
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FDA advisers endorse updating COVID vaccines to target latest omicron strain
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Advocate fights food insecurity with farmJun 14, 2023 11:00 pm - BARRINGTON — Advocate Health Care launched a new cross-county initiative to reduce food insecurity — and thereby improve health outcomes — for patients in-need across it...
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Walgreens helps in trial of potential cancer testsJun 14, 2023 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - Walgreens and San Francisco-based Freenome Thursday announced a multiyear relationship to advance clinical studies of Freenome's blood-based tests for the ea...
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Poles hold protests demanding liberalized abortion law after death of pregnant woman
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NABP acquires patient safety tool from ChronicledJun 13, 2023 11:00 pm - MOUNT PROSPECT - The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy said Wednesday it acquired the MediLedger Product Verification System (PVS) from Chronicled Inc. The asso...
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Friendship Village retirement community in Schaumburg files for bankruptcy protectionJun 12, 2023 1:00 am - Citing industrywide hardships from the COVID-19 pandemic, Friendship Village of Schaumburg - the largest continuing care retirement community in the state - has filed fo...
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Health care workers who cover up patient abuse now face stiffer penaltiesJun 12, 2023 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law on Friday that strengthens the range of penalties that a state watchdog can mete out for health care employees who conspire to ...